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Isamu • today at 5:27 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Their “takes” are pulled from a mashup of the training data set. It’s a superposition of various human opinions.


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jsdalton • today at 5:41 PM

Had the same thought. It’s just a summary of the contemporary prevailing opinion that we humans have about ourselves, as reflected in public writings. These aren’t insights rooted in some philosophical analysis no human has contemplated before.

Reminds of this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/im14andthisisdeep/

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kps • today at 8:45 PM

Hypothesis: Weighted to the postwar western fashion of amplifying Enlightenment self-critique into self-sabotage. What if you ask the same question in Mandarin?

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EGreg • today at 5:32 PM

I wonder how much of their output is simple raw “superpositions” and how much is from far more generalized emergent structures as it is trained and has to learn latent representations.

Only the first layer is a “mashup” of the raw data, other layers start to recognize patterns across the data!

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